Ellen's seemingly perfect marriage comes into question when she runs into Leo, the man who left her brokenhearted eight years before.

After being left at the altar, Louisa retreats to her mother's seaside cottage hoping to find a new direction for her life, never expecting to find love and happiness.

Aspiring writer Laura Rider, having given up sleeping with her sexually enthusiastic husband Charlie after twelve years of marriage, meets Jenna Faroli, a popular radio host in Hartley, Wisconsin, and decides to promote a relationship between Jenna and Charlie, hoping their affair will give her material for a book.

Presents the 1925 novel about Clyde Griffiths, an impoverished young man whose dreams of self-betterment lead him to commit a horrible murder, and includes a chronology and notes.

Carson Fielding, a loner known for his horse-training skills reluctantly agrees to work for Magnus Yarborough, a greedy landowner who suspects Carson of having an affair with his wife and plots to take revenge on the young man.

Jean, Steph, and Michael, three souls from vastly different backgrounds, find themselves thrown together at a secluded country home, where they find new beginnings, leaving the outside world behind and creating their own happiness.